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Do Mobile Pensioners Threaten the Deferred Taxation of Savings?
Meier, Volker - 2013
policy consists in full deferral of income taxes on savings and a full taxation of interest. Mobility of the old calls for … savings in combination with full tax exemption on capital income …
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Morbidity, Mortality, Health Expenditures and Annuitization
Tang, Kam Ki - 2010
In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759851
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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation
Dedry, Antoine - 2015
savings and, thus, income and welfare, in a closed economy with unfunded pension system based on defined contributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009863
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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation
Dedry, Antoine - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of demographic aging on capital accumulation and welfare in economies with unfunded pensions. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, it shows that both the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986115
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Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher than Saving
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2021
of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy ranks investment in human capital higher than investment in nonhuman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316819
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Is Social Security Behind the Collapse of Personal Saving?
Caliendo, Frank - 2009
This paper considers the quantitative role of growth in the size of the social security program in contributing to the collapse of personal saving in the U.S. over the last few decades. Using a calibrated, general equilibrium life-cycle model this paper shows that social security may not be to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157190
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Do Retirement Savings Increase in Response to Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?
Dolls, Mathias - 2018
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide … evidence that this is not due to a crowding-out of other forms of savings. We also show that labor earnings, i.e. the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925277
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Human Capital and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Katsimi, Margarita - 2007
view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777642
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European Integration and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Katsimi, Margarita - 2015
results suggest that the correlation between investment and savings depends on institutions, exchange rate risk and credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028896
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The Standard Deviation of Life-Length, Retirement Incentives, and Optimal Pension Design
Aronsson, Thomas - 2010
In this paper, we consider how the retirement age as well as a tax financed pension system ought to respond to a change in the standard deviation of the length of life. In a first best framework, where a benevolent government exercises perfect control over the individuals' labor supply and...
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